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24 alternatives to Volume Shader BM (Benchmark)

I built a free tool called Volume Shader BM. It’s a real-time graphics GPU performance benchmark that runs entirely in the browser — no installs, no drivers. It uses shader-based ray marching (Mandelbulb scenes) to measure FPS, frame time, and stability across GPUs. You can tweak iterations, step size, resolution, and share reproducible results.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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Volume Shader BM▲7
Gpu benchmark testing tool
2025 · volumeshaderbm.net · its alternatives →
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Volume Shader▲1
Gpu benchmark test tool
Dec 2025 · volume-shader.net · its alternatives →
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ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)▲670
Creator here. I built ChartGPU because I kept hitting the same wall: charting libraries that claim to be "fast" but choke past 100K data points. The core insight: Canvas2D is fundamentally CPU-bound. Even WebGL chart libraries still do most computation on the CPU. So I moved everything to the GPU via WebGPU: - LTTB downsampling runs as a compute shader - Hit-testing for tooltips/hover is GPU-accelerated - Rendering uses instanced draws (one draw call per series) The result: 1M points at 60fps with smooth zoom/pan. Live demo:…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
4SL
Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders▲160
Create, stack, and animate shader effects on images, video, text, and 3D models — free, in your browser, powered by WebGPU. Export video, publish to the community gallery, and remix any published scene.
Apr 2026 · eng.basement.studio · its alternatives →
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a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser▲95
I’ve been experimenting with Rust lately and wanted a project that would help me explore some of its lower-level and performance-oriented features. Inspired by Sebastian Lague’s videos, I decided to implement my own ray tracer from scratch. The initial goal was just to render a simple 3D scene in the browser at a reasonable frame rate. It evolved into a small renderer that can: • Run locally or on the web using wgpu and WebAssembly • Perform mesh rendering with a Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) for acceleration • Simulate both direct and indirect illumination for photorealistic results • Be…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shadergradient 1.0▲234
Create beautiful moving gradients on Framer and Figma
2023 · shadergradient.co · its alternatives →
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Free and open-source home for art made with code▲144
Browse and share GPU-made GIFs. Explore GLSL shader experiments, search by topic, and open any piece in the editor to learn or remix.
2018 · shadergif.com · its alternatives →
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Shader Vision▲138
Real-time GPU shader editor for spatial computing
2024 · shader.vision · its alternatives →
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I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scenes in WebGPU▲131
This is a GPU "software" raytracer (i.e. using manual ray-scene intersections and not RTX) written using the WebGPU API that renders glTF scenes. It supports many materials, textures, material & normal mapping, and heavily relies on multiple importance sampling to speed up convergence.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shadeform – Single Platform and API for Provisioning GPUs▲62
Hi HN, we are Ed, Zach, and Ronald, creators of Shadeform (https://www.shadeform.ai/), a GPU marketplace to see live availability and prices across the GPU market, as well as to deploy and reserve on-demand instances. We have aggregated 8+ GPU providers into a single platform and API, so you can easily provision instances like A100s and H100s where they are available. From our experience working at AWS and Azure, we believe that cloud could evolve from all-encompassing hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) to specialized clouds for high-performance use cases. After the launch of…
2023 · shadeform.ai · its alternatives →
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Physically-Based GPU Pathtracer with Mitsuba XML Support▲63
GPU Raytracer from scratch in C++/CUDA. Contribute to jan-van-bergen/GPU-Raytracer development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia▲198
We ported pbrt-v4 to Julia and built it into a Makie backend. Any Makie plot can now be rendered with physically-based path tracing. Julia compiles user-defined physics directly into GPU kernels, so anyone can extend the ray tracer with new materials and media - a black hole with gravitational lensing is ~200 lines of Julia. Runs on AMD, NVIDIA, and CPU via KernelAbstractions.jl, with Metal coming soon. Demo scenes: github.com/SimonDanisch/RayDemo
Feb 2026 · makie.org · its alternatives →
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Volume Shader▲6
Test your GPU instantly with professional volumetric ray marching. No install needed. Compare scores on global leaderboard for PC, Mac, iPhone & Android.
Jan 2026 · volumeshader.pro · its alternatives →
14IM
I made a GPU VRAM calculator for transformer-based models▲135
2023 · vram.asmirnov.xyz · its alternatives →
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Shadeup – A language that makes WebGPU easier▲179
2024 · shadeup.dev · its alternatives →
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GPT-2 implemented using graphics shaders▲228
Back in the old days, people used to do general-purpose GPU programming by using shaders like GLSL. This is what inspired NVIDIA (and other companies) to eventually create CUDA (and friends). This is an implementation of GPT-2 using WebGL and shaders. Enjoy!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GPU Benchmark & Stress Test▲2
Test your GPU performance instantly in your browser
Apr 2026 · devicexa.com · its alternatives →
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I've made a GPU-based wavelet spectrogram tool for birdsongs▲34
Contribute to soundshader/soundshader.github.io development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Volume rendering 3D data in Three.js and GLSL▲108
I've been going through Cem Yuksel's "Introduction to Computer Graphics" course and thought that writing a volume renderer would be a good way to test my knowledge. It is a common technique used to render 3D medical data. Works by ray marching a specific step size, reading a 3D texture (e.g. MRI data), and calculating opacity values. Code should be easy to get started with for anyone familiar with the JS ecosystem. Questions for the HN community: I spent 20-25% of the entire time just setting up the project and fighting issues with the JavaScript ecosystem. This experience has made me…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
20WS
WebGL Sprites Benchmark▲38
2015 · haxor.xyz · its alternatives →
21
A simple scheduler for running jobs on GPUs▲60
Simple scheduler for running jobs on GPUs. Contribute to ExpectationMax/simple_gpu_scheduler development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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EVOLVE▲22
Gpu ray-tracing benchmark
2025 · evolvebenchmark.com · its alternatives →
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Particle Simulation with OpenGL compute shader – 8M particles▲29
Particle accelleration with OpenGL 4.3, using the compute shader to calculate particle movement on graphics hardware. - MauriceGit/Partikel_accelleration_on_GPU
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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1M+ animated GPU sprites in JavaScript▲27
We added a new feature to our open-source HTML5 game engine today that allows you to create Sprite GPU Layers. These pack together simple JS object definitions onto the GPU and renders them using a custom vertex shader. This skips all CPU computation and GPU upload operations, resulting in vastly increased performance. For objects that don't need to be updated by input, physics, or other interactive behaviors, we found it to be a great solution. In testing, we've easily managed to blast millions of sprites around on moderate desktop-grade GPUs. Indeed, we hit the fill rate limitation of the…
2025 · phaser.io · its alternatives →

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